Greasy Kool-Aid hair,
Flea-market ripped blue jeans,
Flannel shirts and dirty white socks,
I'm no poser.
- chameleon
Make a Wish . . . Make it Happen!
I was teaching 7th grade during the height of the grunge (Seattle sound) movement, and I'm not sure I have a clear understanding of grunge art... but here's my attempt at grunge music haiku...
Constance -- Artella ~ Words, Art, Spirit, Production Editor -- The Bates MoTELLA blog and gallery -- Constance Comments gratitude journal
Stone Temple Pilotssang the ragged flannel soundfrom San Diego
OH.....Constance, this is incredible.Very good....
I love you always
like the air and the water
both well poluted.
This is an ironic (grunge?) haiku, I believe.
Kisses, GOYA
All of you are too much! These are so good, Constance and Goya! Plus all of you who have already contributed. Awesome. Thanks so much. I think we've invented a whole new art form - grunge haiku. Wow. I'm going to run out of room in my zine! I won't be able to add any more than these, but keep on writing them if the spirit moves you. They have certainly been interesting. I'll post those pages of grunge haiku soon here in this forum for anyone to print if you want to.
Bill Charlebois You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams
Oh Bill Thank you soo much, I whish I knew more about computers to participate...
Next time I want to participate in your next zine...in the meanwhile can I purchase a copy of your grunge haiku zine????
And by the way, YOU HAVE INVENTED THIS RICH ART FORM: grunge haiku. It gave me agreat feeling!!!!! don't know what....
PICARDIA???????????? with respect and many many thanks, GOYA
On the terrace of
the international cafe
a burned book.
Hi Goya!
The entire zine is 24 pages long, because I'm including "grunge" art that I've done. It's all in color, so it's going to cost me a lot of money to print. The grunge haiku is only 4 pages long, though. If you give me your "snail mail" address (postal address), I will print the grunge haiku as a mini-zine and mail it to you free. I love all of your contributions!
I will post those 4 pages in this forum as a pdf file for anyone else who wants to print them or at least see the pages. I might be able to get them posted tomorrow evening. I want to mail them to Goya, because she is not a computer nerd like many of us here. I just hope you won't be disappointed by the way I've put them on the pages. Darn! There goes that inner critic again!
I'm very happy you have had fun writing the grunge haiku, Goya! I think it helps us to write down those creepy, inner feelings we often tried to hide. Boy, don't I sound like a psychiatrist now?
Hi Bill ~~ I can hardly wait to read the haikus you've compiled. Disappointed "by the way (you've) put them on the pages"? - absolutely not! That's very generous of you to share the pages as a PDF for all of us in the - - -
tom-tom club bound and hagged swinging on the flippety-flop in our plats and kickers fuzz and wack slacks.
tom-tom club
bound and hagged
swinging on the flippety-flop
in our plats and kickers
fuzz and wack slacks.
Visit the Wikipedia site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak to decipher the (made-up) grunge slang.
rock on,chameleon
The system would not allow me to upload the 4 pages as a pdf file, so I uploaded them as jpegs. Here are the links:
http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_1.jpg
http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_2.jpg
http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_3.jpg
http://artellacafe.com/blogs/billizettis_world/grunge_haiku/wjc_grunge_haiku_Page_4.jpg
I sure hope you like them! (Yah, my inner critic never shuts up!)
We're going to have to bind and gag that inner critic of yours, Billizetti! That's GREAT stuff!
~copper cat
Be you - and no one else.
Bill, I just LOVE your artist grunge pages - so much energy! And you have expressed the idea of grunge so eloquently! The fonts used, down to the background effects that look old, dirty and messy, are fantastic. Thanks for this.
Thank you BILLL they are impresive.....I love the idea you had
to present them MIL GRACIAS, a thousand thanks, GOYA
this is how he sounds
like a dusty chandelier
plunging on stones
from GOYA
Bravo, Billizetti!
These are so wonderfully gross and skanky, I just love them. What a stroke of inspiration to dignify the disgusting with its own zine, too. You are inspiring!
KateSinging